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Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale is now live for all customers and will go on till August 8. The sale brings offers on a wide range of products including smartphones, home appliances, Amazon devices, laptops, cameras and more. Additionally, SBI credit card holders can get an additional 10 percent instant discount of up to Rs.

The decision to impose a 28 percent tax on the full face value of bets placed on online games will be implemented from October 1 even though there was demand for a review from states like Delhi and Goa, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday. The GST Council — the highest decision making body

Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said.  MusicGen is trained using company-owned and specifically licensed music,

Amazfit has expanded its affordable smartwatch range with the new Bip 5 which has been launched in the US, UK, and a few other markets. Priced under $100 (roughly Rs. 8,259) in the US, the latest offering from the Amazfit sports a 1.91-inch HD display with a TFT touchscreen. The wearable device also has 2.5D

AirPods — Apple’s truly wireless stereo (TWS) earphones — could double as a health monitoring tool in the future, according to a patent application recently published by the US Patent Office (USPTO). The Cupertino company appears to have invented an AirPods sensor mechanism that would allow the earphones to monitor electrical impulses from the wearer’s

The Redmi 12 5G has been officially launched in India. The new 5G smartphone from Xiaomi is making its global debut in India, and is currently the company’s most affordable 5G smartphone starting at just Rs. 10,999. The device brings some class-leading features such as a glass back panel, new Snapdragon SoC, and more. Is

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is bringing popular rappers into the game, in celebration of 50 years of Hip-Hop music. As part of its Season 5 update, coming August 2, Activision confirmed that Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj will be joining the game and its battle royale counterpart, Warzone 2.0, as playable operators. Other

Elon Musk said on Friday that monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a “new high” and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million. Musk’s post on X about the user figures comes as the company goes through organisational changes and looks to boost advertising

Pebble Revolve smartwatch has been launched in India on Thursday. The smartwatch sports a 1.39-inch HD display with an always-on feature. The watch comes with three different dial frames and three straps included in the box, allowing users to mix up the watch style. The Pebble smartwatch features Bluetooth calling, multiple sports modes and watch

Twitter was recently rebranded as X by owner Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk claimed that the social media platform reached “new heights” with more than 540 million monthly users as compared to the reported 229 million monthly active users in May 2022. Musk took over the site in November 2022, and has since made several

Honor Pad X9 was launched in India on Saturday. The tablet succeeds the Honor Pad X8, which was released in September 2022 with a MediaTek Helio G80 SoC, a 10.1-inch full-HD IPS display and a 5,100mAh battery. The newly-launched Pad X9 has arrived with significant improvements and upgrades over its predecessor. Notably, the new tablet comes with

Epic Games on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to allow a lower court ruling to take effect against Apple that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its App Store. Epic, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, filed a request asking the nation’s highest court to lift a July 17

Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday. Retention of users on the text-based app was better than executives had expected, though it was

Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series was launched at the Galaxy Unpacked event earlier this week. The series includes the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic models, and they are now up for pre-order in India. The flagship wearables now support Near Field Communication (NFC) based Tap to Pay feature in the country. This functionality

Microsoft is reportedly expanding its Bing AI chatbot to other browsers like Chrome and Safari. While there has been no official rollout of the same, there have been reports citing confirmation from the company about the new update. Bing chatbot is said to be available for select users on Chrome and Safari. While the feature is

Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 is confirmed to launch soon. Xiaomi Founder and CEO Lei Jun confirmed that the upcoming foldable will come equipped with Leica-tuned cameras. The phone is expected to succeed the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2, which was unveiled in August 2022 with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC and a 4,500mAh battery with

After something as monumental as July’s ‘Barbenheimer‘ event, any impending films in the year are bound to appear less enticing. However the month of August isn’t without its highlights, with Bollywood serving two highly-anticipated sequels — OMG 2 and Gadar 2. The former sees Akshay Kumar returning as a godlike figure – this time as

Threads has rolled out a new Following tab on iOS and Android that allows users to see posts from users they have followed on the platform. Meta’s text-based microblogging platform that was launched as an alternative to Twitter — recently rebranded by Elon Musk to ‘X’ — will now allow users to see posts on the platform